What are some of the adventures your snake has been on?

Kari · 10-14-12, 07:27 PM

Here are a couple of my everglades rat snake's many adventures (he was safely extracted from the oven).

Where have you taken your snakes? How much trouble have they gotten into around the house?

stephanbakir · 10-14-12, 07:42 PM

Lost a Taiwan beauty snake for over a month, found it when my dog came to me with about a foot of his tail down the snakes throat (my dog is about 120lbs and the snake was about 8 feet and 2-3 lbs lol)

C5Chris · 10-14-12, 07:47 PM

Ok so adventures I've had both outside and let them check out the yard..

I was letting Lucy get used to the house one day and as soon as I put her on the ground she decided that dark space behind the door was where she needed to be. I didnt want to jar the door by banging the pins out so I unscrewed the hinges. No harm done.

And Dio escaped one day and managed to wedge himself between a bookshelf and the wall.. that took about a half hour of coaxing to get him out, no harm done either. The bookshelf is actually built into the wall.. its kind of weird, there is an identical one on the other side of the wall in another room. I've thought about tearing it out and building a terrarium into it but I think it would be a little too much work.. plus I just want to rip that whole wall out and make the two rooms one large one.

**Aaron_S** · 10-14-12, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by C5Chris

...I was letting Lucy get used to the house one day...

Why would you do this? They aren't dogs.

Adventures? From the breeders house to my house. Or my house to my customers house.

That's as far as snakes should go.

I don't get this thing that it's OK for these snakes to be in these situations. It isn't comical as a lot of the time it can be dangerous to them or your neighbours or to yourself. Imagine the snake somehow getting into your electrical and starting a fire. I'm sure you'd all just go "Oh Snakey." Then come post how comical it was here....

brylecc1989 · 10-14-12, 08:11 PM

I agree^ If you feel the absolute need for some reason to let your snake roam on the floor, you should be supervising it extremely closely. On the other hand, escapes happen, and why not have a thread where people can post an anecdotal account of the crazy things there snakes have done.

infernalis · 10-14-12, 08:23 PM

My snakes are boring, they pretty much stay in their cages except for cleaning and the occasional photo shoot.

alessia55 · 10-14-12, 08:30 PM

The rare times my snakes are allowed anywhere that isn't my hands or their cage, they are 100% supervised. I don't take my eyes off of them. Their don't go on "adventures."

C5Chris · 10-14-12, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Aaron_S

Why would you do this? They aren't dogs.

Adventures? From the breeders house to my house. Or my house to my customers house.

That's as far as snakes should go.

I don't get this thing that it's OK for these snakes to be in these situations. It isn't comical as a lot of the time it can be dangerous to them or your neighbours or to yourself. Imagine the snake somehow getting into your electrical and starting a fire. I'm sure you'd all just go "Oh Snakey." Then come post how comical it was here....

For the record I didn't find this comical, and I was supervising her the entire time. I don't allow my snakes out of my sight. She literally bolted as soon as I put her down.

Rogue628 · 10-14-12, 08:52 PM

My animals are always supervised but there has been one to escape. I found her in the room next to the snake room, hiding in a box in the closet.

The boyfriend took the carpet outside the other day to get a little sun. He thought it would be cool to try to put her on a low branch in a tree to take pictures. Halo decided it was optimum time for scurrying up the tree and he had to climb it to get her out. Lesson learned. Don't put Halo in the tree!

jaleely · 10-14-12, 09:44 PM

yup agree with the no adventures. No going to pet stores (could get sicknesses from other pets) no floating around the house unsupervised, or at all really.
Most mine have done is tried to crawl into my eazy-chair while i'm holding them. This prompts a fast tickling of the tail to make them come out the back. Very few have had this "adventure" lol

Lankyrob · 10-15-12, 04:34 AM

They dont have "adventures", they live intheir vivs, get taken out for handling but NEVER allowed to roam.

**Aaron_S** · 10-15-12, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by C5Chris

For the record I didn't find this comical, and I was supervising her the entire time. I don't allow my snakes out of my sight. She literally bolted as soon as I put her down.

You somehow let her 'bolt' out of your sight. I find this rather difficult to believe since I've had my ball pythons "bolt" and yet I can still manage them. They aren't that quick.

You never answered why they were out to 'get used to the house' either. I'm sure you planned to let the snake free roam a whole lot more often.

Falconeer999 · 10-15-12, 08:06 AM

My kingsnake is so quick, if I put him down to "roam", he'd be bolting away in the blink of an eye and probably disappear into the walls never to be seen again (live in an apartment and they were cheap when running cable - just drilled holes in the bottom of the walls to run the wires through and didn't cover them).

UwabamiReptiles · 10-15-12, 10:20 AM

One of my red tailed green rat snakes got away from me when I first got them. Hands down the fastest snakes I've ever interacted with. He literally bolted from my hands and it was fun chasing him across my room... So he earned the name "PITA" the first week I had him. Besides that, the pythons aren't as adventure prone.

MoreliAddict · 10-15-12, 10:48 AM

My snakes prefer it in their vivs, which have plenty of room for them to stretch out.

Their only adventures take place after they shed. I pull them out to clean their viv up, and shoot a couple pictures. Even then, Spot prefers to stay on the branch which I took him out on, and for me to place the branch back into his viv with him still on it...